Brought home a 550E no spark

[don]

For what it's worth, I have the exact same bike, over this past winter I was having some issues left over from the 09' riding season and did all of the electrical tests in the service manual I downloaded from Basscliffe's site..... and all the tests in the Clymer book....... and all the tests the dealer zook mechanic told me to....... and litterally ALL tests failed yet my ignition system works perfectly fine. Either I did the tests wrong or some other magic fu-fu mo-jo is at work.

(I have worked as an electical engineer for the past 17 years designing and building similar control systems on industrial equipment, and I do know how to operate a meter and sensors and controllers and..............)

Just my one time experience with all of it on bikes. Don't know if it helps you at all. I'm guessing you have tried the spare igniter you have, just because.........

 

[tom203]

For what it's worth, I have the exact same bike, over this past winter I was having some issues left over from the 09' riding season and did all of the electrical tests in the service manual I downloaded from Basscliffe's site..... and all the tests in the Clymer book....... and all the tests the dealer zook mechanic told me to....... and litterally ALL tests failed yet my ignition system works perfectly fine. Either I did the tests wrong or some other magic fu-fu mo-jo is at work.

Yes, I'm getting the feeling that some of the tests are misleading. I'm still trying to understand why suzuki had so many different ignitors doing basically the same thing- if mechanical advance, one ignitor should have worked for all fours.

 

[don]

Well, (to me), that's an issue with these 83's. The advance is electronic, there is no mechanical advance, there isn't even an advance adjustment unless you slot the holes in the pickup mounting plate. If you have advance issues, you can only fix it with a new igniter. At least with mechanical advance you can fiddle with springs and weights.......

 

[JEEPRUSTY]

Yes, I'm getting the feeling that some of the tests are misleading. I'm still trying to understand why suzuki had so many different ignitors doing basically the same thing- if mechanical advance, one ignitor should have worked for all fours.

the japanese model of the triad or whatever needs a review


the latter day gs 500s use one coil with an 8 or so notched rotor.
It truly bizarre

also some of the 90s 500s have a cali only rotor

spark advance as epa panacea
?

 

[thebleakness]

Well it's running now! I think the leads to the coils themselves were switched around (PO must have done something funky) and once I switched them, it started right up. My soldered pickup from RUSTY apparently did the trick.

Thanks for all the help!

 

[blowerbike]

this information has been recorded in my memory bank for the 83-86 550 odd ball GS's.

 

[SVSooke]

Well it's running now! I think the leads to the coils themselves were switched around (PO must have done something funky) and once I switched them, it started right up. My soldered pickup from RUSTY apparently did the trick.

Thanks for all the help!

Switched coil leads got me to.

 

[JEEPRUSTY]

Switched coil leads got me to.

Wow I am so happy to have helped you.
I did a part slookup on the pickup coils and ont he gs500 they switched from the same setup as your bike to a signal though identical pickup with a rotor that has one large tab and several small one.

To thik that for the twin they could have gone furhter and made the pickups redundant.

Oh well the part itself is still insanely priced.

Sunny day time for a drive I say